The Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (Celac) will meet on Tuesday behind closed doors to discuss the assault by the Ecuadorian Police on the Mexican Embassy in Quitothe Honduran vice chancellor, Gerardo Torres, informed EFE this Monday.
He pointed out that the extraordinary meeting of Celac leaders, called by its pro tempore president, the Honduran Xiomara Castrowill be held virtually and “(behind) closed doors.”
The Celac meeting was initially scheduled for last Friday, but Castro rescheduled it for this Tuesday at 9:00 a.m. local time in Honduras (3:00 p.m. GMT), at the request of Mexico.
The Honduran president indicated last Thursday that the Celac summit is convened by the «violation of the Vienna Convention of 1961 and the Asylum Convention of 1954, by Ecuador» with the assault on the diplomatic headquarters of Mexico.
The Ecuadorian Police entered by force, pointed a gun at the head of the Foreign Ministry, Roberto Canseco, and took the former vice president away. Jorge Glas (2013-2017), sheltered there since December while facing a trial for corruption, which caused Mexico to suspend diplomatic relations.
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Glas already has two final convictions, ultimately, in which he has been sentenced to six years, for illicit association to receive bribes from the Brazilian company Odebrecht, and eight, for the Bribery Case, for receiving money from other public contractors, for which former president Rafael Correa was also sentenced.
The Caracas Convention of 1954 prohibits granting political asylum to people who have been convicted by courts of justice or those who are being prosecuted for common crimes.
The Mexican president, Andrés Manuel López Obradorsaid today that he will defend his complaint against Ecuador for the assault on the Mexican Embassy in Quito at the virtual meeting of Celac.
«Tomorrow we are going to have a meeting, a video conference, with presidents of Latin America and the Caribbean, we are going to meet through that means at 9:00 in the morning (15:00 GMT) and we are going to discuss this issue. basically”said the Mexican president in his morning conference.
López Obrador referred to the complaint that his Government presented last Thursday before the International Court of Justice (ICJ), in which calls for suspending Ecuador from the United Nations until it offers a public apology for raiding Mexico’s diplomatic headquarters in Quito on April 5.
An Ecuadorian court last Friday declared Glas’ detention at the Mexican Embassy “illegal” and “arbitrary”, but kept him in prison as he still had to finish serving an eight-year prison sentence for two current convictions issued. in past years. EFE
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